The Genoa Post
Match14 Apr 2029
Genoa run riot against Modena
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings16 Apr 2029
A brace, and Nicolò Zaniolo takes the afternoon — 8.82
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nicolò Zaniolo provided it, and the 8.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Santiago Giménez is carrying Genoa
23 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match14 Apr 2029
10 unbeaten for Genoa
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Genoa did not have in the autumn.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
Johan Felipe Vásquez frozen out at Genoa
This is not rotation. Johan Felipe Vásquez has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Genoa is pretending otherwise.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Tempers go at Genoa
Justin Bijlow was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match14 Apr 2029
Genoa make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match14 Apr 2029
Genoa settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Modena spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings16 Apr 2029
A masterclass from Odilon Kossounou
Marked 8.28 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Squad Genoa lose Giuseppe Morelli
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Aleksandar Stanković
- The dugout Odilon Kossounou has become a man the manager trusts